opusculum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin opusculum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
opusculum (plural opuscula)
- An opuscule; a short work.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
opus (“work, labor”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈpus.ku.lum/, [ɔˈpʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈpus.ku.lum/, [oˈpuskulum]
Noun edit
opusculum n (genitive opusculī); second declension
- Diminutive of opus
- a minor work, (especially) of literature
- (understatement) as a modest description of a large literary work
- (New Latin) an article (also in a periodical); an entry
- a minor work, (especially) of literature
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | opusculum | opuscula |
Genitive | opusculī | opusculōrum |
Dative | opusculō | opusculīs |
Accusative | opusculum | opuscula |
Ablative | opusculō | opusculīs |
Vocative | opusculum | opuscula |
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opusculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- opusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.